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1、高一英语阅读理解试题（科技类）(1)The computer is a useful machine. It is the most important invention in many years. The oldest kind of computer is the abacus(算盘), used in China centuries ago, but the first large, modern computer was built in 1946. A computer then could do maths problems quite fast.Today computers
2、 are used in many ways and can do many kinds of work. In a few years the computer may touch the life of everyone, even people in faraway villages.In the last few years, there have been great changes in computers. They are getting smaller and smaller, and computing faster and faster, Many scientists
3、agree that computers can now do many things, but they cannot do everything. Who knows what the computers of tomorrow will be like? Will computers bring good things or bad things to people? The scientists of today will have to decide how to use the computers of tomorrow.1. The computer is a _ machine
4、. A. helpfulB. strangeC. large D. dangerous2. The first large, modern computer was built about _ years ago. A. a few B. forty C. sixty D. eighty3. The computers of today are _ than before. A. biggerB. fewer C. smallerD. taller4. Computers can do _. A. everythingB. anythingC. nothingD. lots of things
5、5. The scientists of today _ how to use the computers of tomorrow. A. may decideB. must decideC. can makeD. neednt make【答案与解析】本文讲计算机的发展历史。1. A。细节题。根据据第1句话 The computer is a useful machine 可知答案为A。2. C。推断题。第一台计算机是1946年生产的，距今大约60年，所以应选C。3. C。细节题。根据第3段第2句 They are getting smaller and smaller 可知答案为 C。4.
6、D。推断题。根据第2段第1句 Today computers are used in many ways and can do many kinds of work 以及but they cannot do everything可知答案为D。5. B。细节题。根据最后一句话 The scientists of today will have to decide how to use the computers of tomorrow 可知答案为B。(2)Warm water freezes more quickly than cold water. Sir Francis Bacon said
7、 that almost four hundred years ago. But few people believed him until 1970. In that year a Canadian scientist George Kill proved the English professor was right. Dr Kill filled an open oil pail(桶) with cold water. He filled another with warm water. He put both in the same low temperature. The warm
8、water froze first. The lack of covers on the pails is the secret. Some of the warm water changed into vapor. This meant that less of the warm water was left to be frozen. And so the warm water froze faster than the cold water even though it had a greater temperature drop to make.1. Hundreds of years
9、 ago, Sir Francis Bacon found _. A. the temperature of warm water drops faster than that of cold waterB. warm water is heavier than cold waterC. warm water has the same temperature as cold waterD. warm water is not as useful as cold water2. What Sir Francis Bacon said was right, but people didnt bel
10、ieve him until _. A. late in the 20th centuryB. early in the 20th centuryC. three years agoD. late in the 19th century3. Leave a pail with warm water and another pail with cold water in the same low temperature, youll find that _. A. cold water freezes firstB. warm water turns into ice before cold w
11、aterC. warm water and cold water freeze at the same timeD. much of cold water is changed into air.4. Why does warm water freeze first in the same freezing weather? A. Because some of the warm water turns to vapor, the amount(数量) becomes less than that of cold water.B. Because warm water is lighter t
12、han cold water.C. Because the temperature of warm water is lower than that of cold water.D. Because cold water freezes with more difficulty than warm water.【答案与解析】本文介绍热水比冷水结冰快的现象。1. A。细节题。据第1句和第2句可知答案为A。2. A。细节题。根据 But few people believe him until 1970 可知答案为A。3. B。细节题。根据文章第1句可得得答案为B。4. A。推断题。根据 Some
13、 of the warm water changed into vapor. This meant that less of the warm water was left to be frozen 可知答案为 A。(3)If you do not use your arm or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem
14、to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong. If a friend says that his
15、 arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault(过错). But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame(受责备), and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people cant read or write but usually they have better mem
16、ories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people: Practice r
